Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-24
THE WEST.

| MARGARET ENGEL, OF Racine, Is-
claims 10 have been the lawful wife o.
Engei, the hanged Anarchist.
HENRY LEE MosIER, aged twenty-one, was
hanged at Wichita, Kan, on the 10Th fol
the murder of Hugh b. Lawler, an elderly
| man living near st. Anthony. The murder
| took place October IS, 1856, in the Indian
| Territory, Just south of the Harper County
| line. The murder was most brutal, LAWYER
being shot from behind. President Cleve
| land, being appealed to, refused to alter the
sentence of the Federal Court. The hang
| ing of Mosier was the first legal execution
| in Kansas for twenty-one years.
By a collision near Battle Creek, Mich.
| the other morning between freight trains,
an engine and thirteen loaded cars were
wrecked and the engineer and fireman
slightly hurt.
THE Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home
trustees have refused to admit any more
men until new cottages can be furnished.
The Chicago West Division Street Rail
way Company has passed into the hands OF
a syndicate of capitalists.
j. FINLEY HoKE, the Peoria, ILL.,, bank
cashier, has been taken to Joliet peniten-
tiary to serve out his five years. sentence
for forgery, his case having been confirmed
by the Illinois Supreme Court
A DERRICK in Putnam quarry at West
Point, ten miles east of Greensburg, Ind,
fell the other morning. instantly killing
John Davis and Joseph Noher.
CABoosE and four box cars filled with
merchandise were wrecked and an engine
destroyed by collision between freight
trains near Brazil, Ind, the other night.
One man was injured.
The fourth annual convention of the
Western Association of Architects began
in Cincinnati on the 10Th with sixty dele
gates.
MISS ELLA BAUER, bool1keeper in Chi
cago grocery house, attempted to go TO the
fourth floor in the freight elevator alone,
and had her head caught by one of the iron
doors and was instantly killed, being hor-
ribly mangled.
THE twenty first annual session of the
National Grange began at Lansing, Mich,
on the 10th, nearly every State in the
Union being represented.
SIX men were blown to pieces by an eX-
plosion in dynamite packing house near
Ishpeming, Mich, on the 10th. The works
belonged to the Hancock Chemical Com
pany and contained over a ton of dynamite.
THE libel suit of Rev. S. d. Human
against Bishop Hare, of Southern Dakota,
has been withdrawn. 1t grew out of a
charge by the Bishop that Mr.. Humans
conduct toward Indian girls at the latter's
mission was not ministerial. Bishop Hare
has now certified to Mr.. Humans general
good character, and intimated that be may
have been misinformed when he made the
charges.
COHEN, FINN & Co., dry goods mer
chants, at Ashland, Wis, have made an
assignment Assets about SOS, 600. The
principal creditors are ]. v. Farweil a. Co.,
Chicago, and Michael Stein & Co., Roches-
ter, N. Y.
THREE men were killed by falling down
the shaft of the Anvil mine at Bessemer,
Mich, the other day.
A STRIKE took place on the Consolidated
street car lines at Cincinnati on the 18th.
The dismissal OF an obnoxious superin-
tendent being demanded.
THE steamer Arizona was burned to the
waters edge at Marquette, Mich, recently,
the vessel being run ashore just in time to
save those on board